"One can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age I always did it for one half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
-Lewis Carrol "Through the Looking Glass"

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

VI - Foreign Policy

1) Immigrants to the United
States come here

a) Because they like risking their lives in
the ocean or in the desert and America
just happened to be on the other side

b) Because being poor in the United
States is better than being poor anywhere
else

c) Because the United
States allows social upward mobility
regardless of race or birth

d) Because
they were fooled by the right-wing propaganda machine into volunteering to
become the exploited and downtrodden victims of greedy capitalists

2) Illegal aliens are

a)
U.S Citizens

b)
Taxpayers

c)
Voters

d)
Eligible for all services of government

3) What factors affect the price of
“cheap” labor in the international market

a) The condition of roads in the country
where goods are to be produced

b) The stability of the government and the
protections it affords property rights

c) The productivity of the labor

d) The amount of corruption in the
government

e) Tax Liabilities

f) Government regulations of labor or
manufacture

g)
The ability of a corporation to exploit the worker.

4) International Aid helps 3rd
world countries advance because:

a) Then a corrupt government can then
afford to enrich itself

b) There is less incentive to establish systems
that promote local and foreign investment in their country

c)
Most third world leaders want what is best for their people

d) Money
always helps

5) Different Nations co-operate in a
given effort when

a)
No one country acts like a “bully”

b) When a Playground Monitor is present

c) When they see it in their best self
interest to do so

d) When international
law and the United Nations demand it

6) The United Nations constitutes a World
Government that

a)
Is superior and therefore overrides the U.S. Constitution

b) Derives its authority and power from a mandate
of “the people of the world” as c) was ratified at conventions of the people in
each Nation

c) Has built-in checks and balances to
limit the abuse of power

d) Is kept in check by general elections of its
members

e) Has the ability to enforce its
resolutions and police its members by force if required

f) can be bribed

7) War is never the answer because:

a)
In any disagreement, both sides only want what is best for humanity